Port Authority of New York & New JerseyAshwin Kumar, 28, of Pittburgh, Calif., was charged with theft of services and tampering with public documents, meaning his license plates, shown here.

A California trucker was charged with trying to avoid a toll at the George Washington Bridge Sunday after a Port Authority Police officer spotted him covering his license plates with duct tape. Ashwin Kumar, 28, of Pittburgh, Calif., was charged with theft of services and tampering with public documents, meaning his license plates. The cash toll for six-axle vehicles, including tractor trailers, is $78 at all times. He was pulled over after he drove through an E-ZPass lane without a transponder.

NJ.com users are discussing the toll Kumar was expected to pay and the charges against him.

It isn't right not to pay the toll, but it isn't surprising that truckers are driven to take such measures when they're charged disproportionately higher tolls. What makes it infuriating is that some, if not all, of the money truckers are charged are used for the World Trade Center project, as was reported another time in NJ.com. At $78 for a toll I'm wondering who's really being robbed.

If I was a trucker, I would just throw some mud on my license plate and then go though the E-ZPass lane closest to the cash lane. They cant arrest you. It is not a crime to go through E-ZPass without a transponder. It is a traffic violation and not even a moving violation. The truckers problem was using duct tape instead of mud.